Leviticus 11:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Leviticus 11:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 1:6
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Matthew 3:4
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Exodus 10:4-5
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: …
Romans 15:1
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans 14:1
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Topics

Animals Beasts Beetle Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Creeping Things Eating

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-42)

Here is the law, 1. Concerning flying insects, as flies, wasps, bees, etc.; these they might not eat (Lev. 11:20), nor indeed are they fit to be eaten; but there were several sorts of locusts which in those countries were very good meat, and much used: John Baptist lived upon them in the desert, and they are here allowed them, Lev. 11:21, 22. 2. Concerning the creeping things on the earth; these w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

21-22. Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet--Nothing short of a scientific description could convey more accurately the nature “of the locust after its kind.” They were allowed as lawful food to the Israelites, and they are eaten by the Arabs, who fry them in olive oil. When sprinkled with salt, dried, smoked, and fried, the…